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by wodenokoto 867 days ago
According to Chrome, this tab alone uses over 200mb.
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ac29 867 days ago
According to Firefox, it uses 25MB. I suspect neither measurement is entirely accurate.
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incrudible 867 days ago
Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.

This too, shall pass. The minimum amount of memory for a double buffered fullscreen surface at 8bpc on a 4k monitor is 48MB. RAM is meant to be used, and if it was not for memory hogs, the DRAM industry would be a decade behind where it is today.

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JohnFen 867 days ago
> RAM is meant to be used

Sure, and when applications hog it, it prevents me from putting it to better use.

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hulitu 867 days ago
> RAM is meant to be used,

Some of us have to run other programs besides Teams. /s

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wolpoli 866 days ago
Yes, I also happened to run a browser which shares the same philosophy on RAM.
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